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It takes a special kind of human being to ignore the deaths of 2000 men and women, but as we all know by now, President Bush is a special kind of person.

Imagine the consummate hypocrisy of this man, whose lies led a nation of naive and trusting citizens to send their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and mothers and fathers to fight -- and die -- in a war that has accomplished absolutely nothing, except to enrich corporate war-profiteers like Halliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Electric and a host of others.

In earlier times, corporations like these would have become pariahs in our country. Today they are praised daily by financial pundits who are only able to see profit and greed as the true American virtues.

As for Bush, just as the 2000th American casualty was announced by the Pentagon, our conscience-free President was on the road selling his his usual pabulum about this being a moral war against freedom-hating terrorists and that we will win this war no matter how long it takes.

And his audience today? In yet another staged farce, it consisted of the wives of military officers, whose Stepford-like duty to their military husbands would only allow them to display the utmost respect and allegiance to Bush's every inane utterance.

In the meantime, the families and loved ones of 2000 men and women have been ignored by the man whose own greatest tragedy was having his vacation repeatedly interrupted by the "disgraceful" actions of people like Cindy Sheehan.

posted by mauiloa @ 4:19 PM